We’ve heard several strong leak tracks from Chicago rapper Tree’s first release of 2013, Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out, which is due to be posted tomorrow. Two of these were collaborations with alt-rap icons( Roc Marciano and Danny Brown), and these tracks demonstrate Tree’s expansion toward bigger and more polished productions, as well as the clout he’s gaining with the national hip-hop community. But Tree’s final SSII leak “The King” is just him, and features the more homespun and adventurous production style that's made his production so distinctive on releases of the past two years. Not that the song doesn’t show Tree’s advancement-- it features one of his most memorable loops to date, a twinkling treble-y affair that’s in the same aesthetic territory as last year’s“Jays.” What should really be noted here, though people will focus on the curious manipulation of the Elvis sample, is Tree’s exceptional rapping, which sounds typically off-the-cuff while resounding as some of his most careful lyricism to date. It’s full of all the fuck-the-haters vitriol that Tree delivers so well (see “Best” from Sunday School). He discusses, among other things, his fierce commitment to remaining independent-minded as a nearly thirty-year-old rapper making music in a town that’s being swarmed by label representatives. They might be able to grab up every teenage MC on the South Side, but Tree’s determined to stick to the way he’s always done things (i.e. “the skin I’m in is better than the skin that those other n*ggas made for ya/Jumpers standin’ outside, waiting all day for ya”). Listen to "The King" below and download Sunday School II tommorrow.